Harvard Referencing Style for Works Cited List
Harvard Style
Your reference list entries should follow the format of:
·
Author’s surname followed by initials
·
The year of publication
·
The title of the text in either quote marks or
italics, depending on whether it is a short work or a larger work respectively
·
The publisher’s name
·
The place of publication
In contrast to the MLA format which uses periods, the Harvard style
separates each aspect of the reference with a comma. For example, a simple book entry for John Milton’s Paradise Lost will look as follows:
Milton, J 2003, Paradise
Lost, Penguin Classics, London.
Notice the placement of commas. Commas separate the author’s
initials from their surname, and the year of publication from the name of the
text.
For books with two or
more authors, give the first (primary) author’s surname, a comma and the initial,
and follow that with the second author’s surname and initial, in this format:
Rollins, J, Thompson, P & Johnson,
P 2007
There is no limit on the number of authors listed in the reference list
in the Harvard style, and the term “et al.” should only be used for in-text
citations. Each author should appear in the reference list.
If you are using an article
within a book, or any shorter work which appears as part of a larger collection
like a poem in an anthology or a scholarly paper within a journal, then you
will include both the name of the short work in quotation marks as well as the
name of the long work in italics. You’ll also have to include the pages that
the short work appears on, if these are available:
Titus, J 2006, “The Raging Sea”,
Poems About Water, Purple Publishers,
New York, pp. 25-33.
For scholarly journals, you can also include the edition
details, such as the volume and the number of the journal:
Azua, M 2003, “Phenomenology in
the Workplace”, Journal of Workplace Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 5, pp.38-77.
For electronic sources such as websites, you can keep the
same format and simply leave out any information which is not available, such
as author’s name or date of publication.
You should include the URL of any sites that you visit in
place of page numbers, and the date that you accessed the information.
Rice, H 2017, “10 Things You
Didn’t Know You Were Doing Wrong”, FuzzBeed, viewed 22 April 2017, http://www.fuzzbeed.com/10_things.html.
In this example, the date of viewing the site is listed
after the title of the website. For online scholarly articles, you can use the
usual format given for physical journal articles, and simply include the URL
and the date you accessed it.